A team from the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE) was commissioned by Marie Curie to explore the …

Introduction One of the key aspects of the care of terminal patients is care delivered in their
own home. Increasingly, the process of dying is moving from hospitals to homes. Although …

Medical Education 2011: 45: 389–399 Context Death and dying occur in almost all areas of
medicine; it is essential to equip doctors with the knowledge, skills and attitudes they need to …

Background Clinical nursing practice may involve moral distress, which has been reported
to occur frequently when nurses care for dying patients. Palliative sedation is a practice that …

Background Many people who might benefit from specialist palliative care services are not
using them. Aim We examined the use of these services and the reasons for not using them …

Objectives Achieving congruence between preferred and actual place of death is
increasingly being used as a quantifiable indicator of the effectiveness of palliative care …

In their first year of work, newly qualified doctors will care for patients who have palliative
care needs or who are dying, and they will need the skills to do this throughout their medical …

Purpose The purpose of this research is to study to what extent dying patients are aware of
the imminence of death, whether such awareness is associated with patient characteristics …

Background In acute-care hospitals, patients treated in an ICU for surgical reasons or
sudden deterioration are treated in an outpatient ward, ICU, and other multiple departments …

For the current study, clinical observations of communication between patients, families, and
clinicians during chronic, serious, or terminal illness in a cancer care trajectory were …